Re: Crows and Navajos

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aryeh_lev" <aryeh_lev@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> >
> > I checked the map; it seems I confused Crow with Cheyenne.
>
> Okay, that makes a little more sense.
>
> From the Navaho reservation I remember passing at a gas
> > station two school busses with children so well-dressed and -

kempt

> > that the busses might have as well have in Japan. But they might
> have
> > been Hopi, of course.
>
> Was this by any chance near the Catholic boarding school at St.
> Michael's, Arizona? The BIA boarding schools were also still

active

> at that time. In any case, schoolbuses, no matter how well the
> children in them are kempt, are hardly an integral part of any
> indigenous American culture (or IE culture, for that matter,

although

> the wheels on them do go 'round and 'round :-))
>

It's thirty years back, it's a memory of a memory, I'm not even sure
whether it was in 1971 or 1979. I know I ('we' on 1979) stayed on the
main roads though Arizona. From 1979 I remember visiting a Navaho
visitors' center; at the back of it were two Navaho teenagers with
baseball caps chatting away in English. At least the Sioux still
spoke their language (which I remarked to my girlfriend, as we pulled
out of that gas station, whereupon the hitchhiker from New York who
was sitting in the back seat and who going to take us to Crow Dog's
home where he would take part in a sweat lodge, hit the ceiling and
hissed "No they don't, they speak English very well!!"; apparently he
wanted to prevent that the two European nationalists in the front
seats who unashamedly spoke a foreign language among themselves, got
the wrong impression).

Torsten